"Slaughter."

Zhao Chongxuan stood in front of Li Siye with his chin raised, and said in a tone of eager anticipation: "As long as you kill these seven thousand heads and leave the sheepskins and wool to the herdsmen, their losses will not be too great." ”

He very much hoped that Li Siye would agree with his opinion on slaughter, as if this would determine something.

Pei Guoliang also tried his best to persuade at this moment: "Li Zhenzhi, kill it, even if the herdsmen and these sheep can survive this winter, our pasture in Shule will not be able to withstand so many livestock next year." ”

Li Siye stood on the ground and paced back and forth, tugging on the shallow whisker on his chin and said: "I have found a solution to the matter of the pasture, and besides, it is not to the point where the sheep have to be slaughtered at the moment, even if they want to slaughter, they must not go against the wishes of the herdsmen, and they have to be willing." ”

"Oh, how is this possible! For them, these sheep are gold and silver stored in the family, how can they take the initiative to give it? ”

"Anything is possible." Li Siye clasped his hands on his chest, faced Pei Guoliang and Zhao Chongxuan and said: "The psychology of the herdsmen needs to be guided, from now on, a notice will be posted again to distribute pasture, and the remaining pasture will be priced, and the herdsmen will lead the sheep to exchange, and a sheep can be exchanged for 500 catties of pasture." ”

"What use do we want this sheep? The forage for the horses was just enough. Zhao Chongjun suddenly asked.

"For slaughter, of course." Li Siye said in a light tone.

Zhao Chongxuan felt that the world was spinning in front of him, it was so simple? It's just a different way of saying, or just a change of method, and killing sheep is not so difficult to accept. He gave Li Siye an incredulous list of the difficulties he encountered: "The herdsmen are not stupid, don't they know that this is taking away their sheep in disguise? ”

Li Siye puffed up his stomach and said: "Of course it can't be so simple and rude, we must do a certain degree of public opinion guidance, since the matter in front of us has been solved, let's talk about the future grassland planning." ”

He shouted to Yan Xiaosi, who was standing outside the Governor's Mansion, "Xiaosi, bring the picture I asked you to bring this morning!" ”

Pei Guoliang and Zhao Chongxuan were shocked and suspicious, how could it have been solved? If the herders refuse to exchange their sheep for grass, what will they do? Leaving it alone is absolutely not an option, the destructive power of hungry sheep is staggering, and the restless herders are also destabilizing factors.

Yan Xiaosi had already walked into the hall with a wooden tube on his back, took out the distribution map of Shule grassland, and spread it on the floor.

"This is the grassland distribution map of Shule Town that I arranged for my subordinate Feng Changqing to draw, Pei Dudu, you should take a good look, Shule Town is self-sufficient, and more than half of the taxes come from nomadism, but the footprints of nomadic activities are only in this circle, and once they encounter mountains and hills, they will stop. It is precisely because the transition is not planned that the grassland is gnawed two or three times a year, causing serious damage to the grassland, while the alpine meadow is a little farther away and no one has set foot on it. As long as the pasture is planned out of more than a dozen pieces, distinguishing the military pastoral area and the civilian pastoral area and the four-season pasture, and transferring the field from far to near many times a year, Shule City and its surrounding pastures are divided into grass areas, which are used for harvesting and grassing, and no one is allowed to enter the grazing. ”

Pei Guoliang sighed and admired after hearing this, he couldn't imagine that Li Siye had arranged it so carefully, drew the grassland map in advance, and also thought about the grassland plan. Is this what the Han people often say about prevention before it happens?

"It's good, it's just that our herdsmen in Shule are relatively loose, and they don't act in unison like the Turks, so it's not easy to manage."

"Can this also be called a problem?" Li Siye suspected that Pei Guoliang was getting by, and he was suspected of administrative inaction.

"You are a descendant of the king of Shule, and you are also the governor of the Shule Prefecture, the Sima of Yaojian Prefecture, and the fifteen prefectures under the jurisdiction of Shule are all governed by you, and you have absolute authority to formulate laws, stipulate grazing areas, and list the punishment provisions for daring to violate the prohibition. Secondly, it shouldn't be a problem to organize the herdsmen in Shule Town into settlements and use them to graze their herds, right? ”

"Okay," Pei Guoliang's palm slapped heavily on the armrest of Hu's bed to show his determination. "Of course I have to do the custom law, but what to do next, and ask Li Zhenenvoy to teach me."

Li Siye nodded with satisfaction and said: "Taking advantage of this winter, we will divide the military and pastoral areas and the civilian pastoral areas, divide the four seasons pasture and grass areas, and nail out the isolation sign wooden sign. I had sent a staff officer to Bahan, Huxun, and it should be almost there, drawing on their centuries-old nomadic experience. Of course, the first step is to issue a notice and post it in all states and cities, informing them in advance that Shule will carry out pasture planning, and that grazing beyond the area will be severely punished. ”

"In that case, I will draw up a notice and order it to be posted everywhere."

Li Siye solemnly bowed his hand to him: "Thank you Pei Dudu for your full support, this matter requires the full cooperation of both of us." ”

"Whatever the general said, our Governor's Mansion should be grateful to you."

The matter of communicating with the Governor's Mansion came to an end, Li Siye came out of Pei Guoliang's Mansion and instructed Yan Xiaosi who was following behind: "You go and do something, find a few military men who like to drink, and spread some rumors...... Such and such. ”

Yan Xiaosi listened to it and admired it sincerely in his heart, the general's arrangements were really interlocking like chain mail.

……

In front of the city wall of the south gate of Shule, a group of people gathered, and there were two notices written on jute paper posted on the wall, one written in Chinese characters, and the other written in Sanskrit. One of them explained to the illiterate crowd: "The Governor's Office of Shule will plan the surrounding pastures next year, and will divide a number of pastures for a limited season, and will also demarcate areas for grazing that are forbidden to grazing. ”

A group of people expressed their opinions: "This is long overdue!" These sheep herders should be in charge, and they all know that the pastures around Shule City are used for winter grass, but some people just unconsciously put the sheep in to eat grass, and when there is no grass in winter, they really deserve it. ”

"You know! Where do you farmers know the hardships of our herding, although it is not like words, most of us still abide by the rules, and we should have come up with a law to manage it, but it is useless, and we will commit it when we should commit it, and now we have demarcated the four seasons, and the days must not be as good as before. ”

……

There are not many wine shops in Shule City, probably due to the strong Buddhist atmosphere, dignitaries and nobles do not like to drink, and most of the people who can gather to the wine shop are three kinds of people who go back and forth, one is a business traveler, one is a herdsman, and one is the Tang army.

Several herdsmen with hundreds of sheep were in a very bad mood, gathering in the wine shop to drink, piggybacking on the frustration in their chests and their inner dissatisfaction.

"The Governor's Mansion no longer provides free pasture, but asks us to exchange sheep for a 500 catties of grass, which is not enough for 200 sheep to eat for a day. Pei Dudu just wants to take the sheep away from us in disguise, and then wants to slaughter and kill, that's someone else's business. ”

"Yes!" A vulgar Sogdian man slammed his fist on the desk: "We can't be at the mercy of the Governor's Mansion, we have to unite, don't give the sheep to the Governor's Mansion for grass!" ”

"I don't believe they're going to let us starve our sheep to death!"

"Hey, the sheep can't die of hunger, these beasts are hungry and eat everything, so they simply scatter them in Shule City, and eat whatever they see."

Some people sensibly expressed their objections: "You can't do this, there is still the Tang army in the city, and the Tang army can be in the same group as Pei Dudu, especially the Zhao military envoy, who is generally not at ease with Pei Dudu." ”

"I feel that Li Zhenzhi is a good official, in case the Governor's Mansion forces us hard, we will go to Li Zhen's Mansion to petition, I believe that Li Zhenzhi will not ignore us."

The gang drank for a while, probably because the topic was about the same, and most of them fell silent.

In the screen next door, there were several Tang Jun's voices, revealing inside information about this pasture, which made people's ears itch unbearably.

"Damn, two days ago, the dead mutton was about to eat Lao Tzu and vomit, I used to think about it every day when I couldn't eat it, but now I don't want to eat a bite."

"What is this," one sneered coldly, "and you'll have to eat it tomorrow spring."

What do you mean by that? Next year, the grass grows in spring, and the sheep have something to eat, so it will be our turn to slaughter. ”

"Lonely and unheard, don't you see a notice posted on the wall? The Shule Governor's Mansion is going to plan the pastures, and the grazing people who cross the field will be severely punished. With the current amount of herdsmen's grazing, the planned pasture grass simply cannot afford so many sheep, and when the autumn grass is harvested this year, people have already cut the grass roots, and a batch of them will be killed before the Governor's Office divides the pastures in the spring of next year. ”

The herdsmen outside the screen heard a chill in their eyes, and some of them snorted disdainfully at the corners of their mouths, and then listened quietly.

"Let's talk nonsense, if the Governor's Mansion wants to kill the sheep, kill it now, why do you have to wait until the beginning of spring next year?"

"You don't understand this, the herdsmen still have luck, thinking that in the winter the price of wool and mutton has fallen, as long as it survives the spring of next year, the price will be able to rise. In fact, it will fall even more fiercely in the spring of next year, and no one will buy the thin sheep that have been hungry for a winter. The Governor's Mansion had to control the number of pasture sheep, and at that time, the sheep herders had only two choices, to kill the surplus sheep themselves, or to hand them over to the Governor's Mansion to kill. “

"Hey, let's not talk about that, drink. Now it's not cost-effective to exchange 500 catties of forage for a sheep, do you know how much this pasture is a catty now, I heard that the sheep exchanged for forage is for our Tang Army to make cured meat, do you know what cured meat is?"

The herdsmen outside the screen gradually lost hearing the sound inside, but their hearts had sunk to the bottom of the water, and they could no longer make any ripples.